Friday Giveaway: Beasts Of The Southern Wild Original Score On Vinyl

Today we have a wonderful little giveaway for all of you commenters out there with turntables or, at the very least, album frames you once bought at Urban Outfitters that are currently sitting unused in your closet: The original score from Beasts Of The Southern Wild on vinyl! I only saw this movie recently, but it is one of my favorites of the year 2012 and the score is really wonderful. (Plus, not to harp too much on wanting to display this in my home, but the album cover art is beautiful.) The vinyl is going to be released the same day as the DVD, December 4, for those of you (me) who do not win this contest but still want to own this. In order to win:

Comments must be submitted here by logging in with your Facebook account by Thursday, December 6, 6PM EST. You can still play along if you just want to comment with your Videogum commenter account, but you can’t win! Only with your Facebook account. I’m sorry. Also, you’ll be notified that you won through a Facebook message so WATCH OUT and PLEASE ONLY COMMENT ONCE! A winner will be chosen at random! Beasts Of The Southern Wild trailer after the jump.

I’m going to say Emilie Simon’s score for the movie Delicacy, even though it was released in France last year. This is America, and we didn’t get it until 2012! And it’s super, super good and super, super sad. Emilie is the best and I want to be her when I grow up.

This may be my favorite soundtrack of 2012 — didn’t realize until now that Benh Zeitlin co-composed it in addition to writing and directing the movie. Jonny Greenwood’s score for the Master was also fantastic.

Um…does it count if I say that my favorite film scores are Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin’s work on Zeitlin’s earlier short film “Glory at Sea” and Ray Tintori’s “Death to the Tinman,” both viewable online:

or as part of the always stunning Wholphin DVD series. I very much enjoyed Beasts of the Southern Wild but had a few issues with it as well and I feel like “Glory at Sea” kind of covers similar ground (musically as well) but in a much less problematic way. That being said, I absolutely love all of Romer and Zeitlin’s music, so much so that I spent a good portion of an evening trying to track down a digital download of the scores to those shorts, and upon finding it available on some dusty, janky online music store in a corner of the Internet and then actually paid MONEY for them (in A.D. 2010, no less), thank you very much, despite being half convinced that my credit card number was going straight to the Russian mafia. I thought the score to “Beasts of the Southern Wild” was completely amazing and would love to have it on vinyl and promise not to scratch or make a dubstep remix of any of the songs, or at the very least not upload it to SoundCloud. (Wendy Carlos’ work on “A Clockwork Orange” is probably an easy tie, lest my original answer seem like pandering.)

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